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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-07-09 (86 years old)

Place of Birth

Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

Brian Dennehy

Biography:

Brian Mannion Dennehy (July 9, 1938 – April 15, 2020) was an American actor of film, stage and screen.

Known For

Acting

2024

Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2023

Sly as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2021

Son of the South as Grandfather

2020

Driveways as Del

2019

2018

The Seagull as Pjotr Sorin
Tag as Mr. Cilliano

2017

A Very Merry Toy Store as Joe Haggarty

2016

Hap and Leonard as Sheriff Valentine Otis

2015

Knight of Cups as Joseph
Cocked as Wade

2013

The Blacklist as Dominic Wilkinson

2012

Twelfth Night as Sir Toby Belch

2011

The Big Year as Raymond Harris

2010

The Next Three Days as George Brennan
Every Day as Ernie
Alleged as Clarence Darrow
Caesar and Otto meet Dracula’s Lawyer as Steve Dracula’s More Famous Brother
Rizzoli & Isles as Ret. Det. Kenny Leahy
The Big C as Dad

2009

Love and Valor as Narrator
The Good Wife as Bucky Stabler

2008

Righteous Kill as Lieutentant Hingis
Cat City as Harold

2007

Ratatouille as Django (voice)
Trumbo as Self
War Eagle, Arkansas as Pop, Enochs Father
Welcome to Paradise as Bobby Brown
Marco Polo as Kublai Khan

2006

10th & Wolf as Agent Horvath
Everyone's Hero as Babe Ruth (voice)
The Exonerated as Gary Gauger
30 Rock as Mickey J

2005

Assault on Precinct 13 as Sargeant Jasper O'Shea
Our Fathers as Father Dominic Spagnolia

2004

She Hate Me as Billy Church
The 4400 as Mitch Baldwin

2003

American Valor as Narrator

2002

Stolen Summer as Father Kelly
A Season on the Brink as Bobby Knight

2001

Summer Catch as John Schiffner
Three Blind Mice as Matthew Hope
Warden of Red Rock as Sheriff Selwyn Church
The Agency as James Graydon
Night Visions as Camper Ben (segment "Quiet, Please")

2000

Fail Safe as Gen. Bogan
Dish Dogs as Frost
Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman
Arrest & Trial as Self - Host
Founding Fathers as George Washington (voice)

1999

NetForce as Lowell Davidson
Out of the Cold as David Bards
Sirens as Lt. Denby
Silicon Towers as Tom Warner
The West Wing as Sen. Rafe Framingham
Netforce as Lowell Davidson

1998

Thanks of a Grateful Nation as Sen. Donald Riegle
Voyage of Terror as The President

1997

Just Shoot Me! as Red Finch
Nostromo as Joshua C. Holroyd

1996

Romeo + Juliet as Ted Montague
Shadow of a Doubt as Charley Sloan
Undue Influence as Paul Madriani
A Season in Purgatory as Gerald Bradley
Dead Man's Walk as Major Chevallier

1995

Tommy Boy as Thomas 'Big Tom' Callahan
The Stars Fell on Henrietta as Big Dave McDermot

1994

Midnight Movie as James Boyce

1993

Foreign Affairs as Chuck Mumpson
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor as Sgt. Jack Reed
Final Appeal as Perry Sundquist
Murder in the Heartland as John McArthur

1992

Gladiator as Jimmy Horn
To Catch a Killer as John Wayne Gacy
Deadly Matrimony as Jack Reed
The Burden of Proof as Dixon Hartnell
To Catch a Killer as John Wayne Gacy

1991

F/X2 as Leo McCarthy
In Broad Daylight as Len Rowan
Zebras: Patterns in the Grass as Narrator (voice)

1990

Presumed Innocent as Raymond Horgan
Rising Son as Gus Robinson

1989

Day One as Gen. Leslie Groves
Perfect Witness as James Falcon
Seven Minutes as Wagner
Indio as Whitaker

1988

Miles from Home as Frank Roberts Sr.
A Father's Revenge as Paul Hobart
Cocoon: The Return as Walter (uncredited)
American Experience as Aaron Burr (voice)

1987

Best Seller as Dennis Meechum
The Belly of an Architect as Stourley Kracklite
The Lion of Africa as Sam Marsh
The Little Mermaid as King Neptune (Narrator) (voice)

1986

Legal Eagles as Cavanaugh
F/X as Lt. Leo McCarthy
The Check is in the Mail... as Richard Jackson
Acceptable Risks as Don Sheppard

1985

Cocoon as Walter
Silverado as Cobb
Annie Oakley as Buffalo Bill
Evergreen as Matthew Malone
Tall Tales & Legends as Buffalo Bill
Screen Two as James Boyce
The Last Place on Earth as Frederick Cook

1984

Finders Keepers as Frizzoli
The River Rat as Doc Cole
The Pigs vs. The Freaks as Sergeant Cheever
Miami Vice as Reverend Billy Bob Proverb
Hunter as Dr. Bolin

1983

Gorky Park as William Kirwill
Blood Feud as Edward Grady Partin
I Take These Men as Phil Zakarian
Blood Feud as Edward Grady Partin
Reading Rainbow as Himself - Narrator (voice)

1982

First Blood as Hope Sheriff Will Teasle
Split Image as Kevin Stetson
Faerie Tale Theatre as King Neptune / Narrator (voice)

1981

Fly Away Home as Tim Arnold
Skokie as Police Chief Arthur Buchanan

1980

A Rumor of War as Sgt. Ned Coleman

1979

10 as Donald
Dummy as Ragoti
Knots Landing as James Cargill

1978

Foul Play as Fergie
A Real American Hero as Buford Pusser
Ruby and Oswald as George Paulsen
A Death in Canaan as Barney Parsons
F.I.S.T. as Frank Vasko
Dallas as Luther Frick
Pearl as Sgt. Otto Chain

1977

Semi-Tough as T.J. Lambert
Lou Grant as Wilson
Lucan as Fisher
The Fitzpatricks as Coach Hatfield

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1974

Police Woman as Burrows
Playhouse as Grimmet

1973

Kojak as Peter Connor

1972

M*A*S*H as M.P. Ernie Connors

1971

1962

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Presenter / Performer / Winner
Tony Awards as Self - Winner
Tony Awards as Self - Presenter

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner

Production

2001

Warden of Red Rock as Executive Producer
Three Blind Mice as Executive Producer

2000

Death of a Salesman as Executive Producer

1993

Jack Reed: Badge of Honor as Co-Executive Producer

Directing

2001

Night Visions as Director

Writing

1996

Crew

2013

The Blacklist as In Memory Of